Short Acquisitions Poems

fateful misgivings
milineal mourns
bashful boomer acquisitions
aquatic out of towner
wonderlust waterfaller...

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In its whisperings and articulations 
A searchlight into that hidden recess
The bane of acquisitions 
Becomes the flight from humility
On which freedom rests 
Shall we render benefaction of such
Crude and insidious notions........

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I am haunted 
by the games he played 
the acquisitions he made 
the guilt he made me feel 
I played right along 
like an idiot 
right into his hand 
until the day came 
when he found someone else
to play his game 
and I was finally released...

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A fire within,
Caving to the sin,
I feel at hand,
And my tanned-
Legs begin to quake,
I feel an ache,
In my soul,
Find control,
To pursue,
What’s true,
In a world of apparitions,
And acquisitions,
I need something real,
Stabbing my side to feel,
What is reality,
Certainly not actuality....

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While you battle with life like no tomorrow 
Hustling and bursting the streets and places 
Hoping for the fulfilment of acquisitions
The ordained course of life could be different 

Each chose a path to thread before now
In this current journey of earthly existence 
Known to the custodians above and the self 
The path which alone can satisfy and fulfil...

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We are all collectors;
storing images and sounds
as museums their acquisitions,
and conductors, their array
of scintillating voices….

Some we obtain for profit
and some to simply enjoy--
a lovely face with charming
grace--a lyrical smile
with eyes that beguile--
the roaring wind
stripping trees and 
flattening fields—amazing
how many worlds a heart can
hold--or vanquish in an instant
of rage....

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